Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.
Margaret HooverRead
Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing the LGBTQ+ community as integral members of society.
Margaret Hoover's quote serves as a reminder that individuals who identify as gay or lesbian are not just abstract concepts, but they are people who play various roles in our lives, contributing to our communities in significant ways. It highlights the need for acceptance and understanding, stressing that love and friendship transcend sexual orientation.
In practice
During a pride month gathering, to foster inclusivity and understanding.
Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.
The conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.
Perfect is not on the menu. Nobody is going to be your ideal candidate. You can't dream somebody up out of nothing that's going to be the perfect candidate, so you do have to pick between a series of bad choices.
The triumph, real triumph of the feminist movement is that women get to choose.
Some conservative groups believe that a person cannot be both conservative and gay. They believe that traditional lives cannot be led by those who have not traditionally been accepted by society.
The women's movement and the result that I get to benefit from and my generation gets to benefit from is that we might be doing housework, but we might not be. And we get to choose, and we get to negotiate and work that out with our prospective husbands or with our husbands.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
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